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Description: | ; Date(s): circa 1470; Classification(s): illuminated manuscript, book of hours, illumination; Acquisition: bequeathed by McClean, Frank (1837-1904), 1904 [MS McClean 66]
Description: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii parchment flyleaves + 175 fols. + i parchment flyleaf, 78 x 56 mm (43 x 29 mm), 15 long lines, ruled in brown ink, catchwords.
BINDING: Nineteenth century, black leather over wooden boards, traces of a pair of fastening devices on fore-edge, edges tinted violet, kept in a brown blind-tooled leather case.
CONTENTS:
fol. 1r?12v Calendar
fols. 13r?94v Hours of the Virgin
fols. 95r?117r Penitential Psalms and Litany
fols. 122v?171v Office of the Dead
fols. 172r?175r Short Hours of the Cross
DECORATION: Five historiated initials in pink or green, with white floral motifs and acanthus extensions on gold grounds for major text divisions: fol. 13r Hours of the Virgin, Matins, [D, 10 ll.] Annunciation, with full floral and spraywork border framed within gold bars and containing a lozenge-shaped vignette with a bird and a wreath medallion with space left blank for a coat of arms; fol. 29v Hours of the Virgin for the Advent season, Matins, [I, 15 ll.] Virgin and Child, the full-length figure of the Virgin forming the shaft of the initial, with one-sided floral and spraywork border; fol. 95r Penitential Psalms, [D, 8 ll.] David penitent, with full floral, spraywork and bar border; fol. 122v Office of the Dead, [D, 9 ll.] Skull on grassy background, with full border containing flowers, acanthus, spraywork with gold balls, and gold and blue bars; fol. 172r Short Hours of the Cross, [P, 5 ll.] The Cross and Instruments of the Passion, with two-sided floral, spraywork and acanthus border .
ORNAMENTATION: Pink or green initials [5?8 ll.] with white floral motifs and acanthus extensions on gold grounds, and partial floral and spraywork borders for lesser text divisions; alternate blue and gold initials [1-2 ll.] with red or violet pen flourishing. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | book of hours illuminated manuscript | Temporal: | name=fifteenth-century, third quarter; start=1470; end=1470 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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